Happy Belated St. Patty's Day!

(Kimmy & I in Vermont two years ago... just liked the photo.)

Did you wear green yesterday? Yup, I did! Although I was told by my colleagues that it was turquoise so it didn't count. Whatever. Party poopers. I figure if I have a stepfather named Patrick O'Toole then I'm part Irish so I had a good time celebrating regardless. It was another long work day but lots of progress was made on the plans for our Day for Admitted Students event including the highly coveted arrival of the program's 1st draft. Our publications office does a great job at pulling it together quickly as the turn around time for when the plans are complete and when the program is needed in our office- goes by in a flash. Ahh, one more thing off the list.

It was a lovely day yesterday but the temperatures have dropped again so it feels like late winter (admittedly appropriately so) instead of the springlike days we were having a week ago. Hrrmphf. I can't wait until spring it here full time. It just lifts everybody's spirits. Our daffodils have now passed and the flox is just beginning to turn pink so lots of color and fresh stuff to look forward to.

Hee hee. Penelope is staring at me from her crate right now and wimpering in a way that I'm sure means, "Please take me out and play with me... I can see you RIGHT THERE... I know you are there and I can't believe you haven't seen my cute pouty face yet and decided that playing with me is better than ANYTHING you could possible need to be doing right now." Ahhh, me. Hopefully Jonathan will have some time to take her on a long walk at Waller Mill Pond today. Unfortunately she's become a bit of a weekend warrior when it comes to really lengthy and exhausting exercise because we simply haven't had time to take her out into the woods during the work weeks. When we do though, she LOVES it. I'll be at work today with a quick stop at 11 a.m. for some time with Emily and will hopefully be finished by 3ish as Saskia is coming into town (a good friend who I used to work with and is now in graduate school at UVA) and I'd love to catch up with her.

I must admit I'm not sure what the heck I will do with a whole weekend free after our busy season finishes up! Haaaaaaa. I just wanted to see what it would be like to type that sentence. Actually I have a list of about 500 projects I'm looking forward to doing when I have some time so there will not be enough days off to even tap the list...

Alrighty, I'm off to jump in the shower (yup, that is right folks, 7:50 a.m. on a Saturday) and to head to work for a 9:30 a.m. start time. Do you detect a little bitterness? We'll make it through but when you are in the heart of it- there are moments that STINK!!!

Happy day to you all!